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ISABEL NGAN

Hello!
I am a New York-based design practitioner passionate about accessibility design and empowering people. I am currently a service designer at Fjord NY.
The night sky with a view of mars and the CMU MHCI logo integrated into the NASA logo
UX/UI
NASA Playbook

BRINGING MISSION CONTROL TO MARS

Building on Mission Log and Playbook, which are NASA’s communication and planning tools, we reimagined deep-space communication when a message can take up to 24 minutes to send from Mars to Earth.

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Transition design
ECOLOGY OF INTERVENTIONs

DESIGNING FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CHANGE & TRANSITIONS

Ultimately designing interventions to solve the wicked problem of the isolation of the elderly in Pittsburgh, we used the Transition Design, a transdisciplinary approach to large-scale change, to address the intractable nature of socio-techno-ecological issues across scales, temporalities, stakeholders, and infrastructures.

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Computer on a couch with Home Depot's website loaded
Service design, UX/UI
Kitchen Measurements Search

INCREASING CUSTOMER CONFIDENCE & DECREASING PROJECT TIME

The Kitchen Measurements Search simplifies the process of kitchen remodels by empowering customers to query Home Depot's existing historical measurement database, ultimately enabling customers to get their dream kitchen faster and cheaper.

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Isabel is in front of amorphous shaped wood wall installation where her reflection is shown on LEDS on the installation
Interaction design, design research
Time [in]Material

INTERACTING WITH THE PAST THROUGH SPACE & TIME

Time [in]Material brings forward key aspects of time and memory through the blend of physical computing, computer vision, and LED programming techniques to connect people through space and time.

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